I had never heard the term before, my bad, but it appears people refer to the stock market in China as “dubo ji”, meaning slot machine.
The NY Times has a very insightful and entertaining article about what drives small investors to buy.
Millions of everyday investors rushed blindly into stocks, emptying out their savings […]

A lot more visitors today searching for information about the plummeting Shanghai Stock Market. Unfortunately for them they all ended up on my old post about the now long gone Xiang Yang Market.
Are there parallels between the two of them? The Xiang Yang full of fake products and the Stock market full of […]

In the category weird:
Have you ever considered advertising on the Internet for a stand-in mistress that can be roughed up by your wife. Well, a Chinese businessman beat you to it? Or maybe you’re looking for a job that pays you 300 Rmb/minute?
A Chinese businessman has advertised on the Internet for a stand-in mistress […]

Disclaimer: This is a sponsored post. The review is as it is, a review and an honest one I hope.
The only moving I have done from Holland to China was by sending a small box at the post office. The rest has been stored in Holland and since then I have collected so many new […]

PSV, a Dutch football club from Eindhoven recently hired Sun Xiang form the Shenhua Shanghai football team.
Partly because he is a talented player and partly because of the marketing value. PSV is sponsered by electronics multinational Philips and a Chinese player will attract lots of press in China.
Sun Xiang made history as he […]

Microsoft has a new product, a youtube clone, called soapbox.

The definition of a soapbox is
A soapbox is a raised, improvised platform on which one stands to make an impromptu speech, often about a political subject.
Well, no surprise here that Microsoft deems it appropriate not to make it available in China.
Interestingly enough the Chinese text […]

Municipal bylaw enforcement officers in Chongqing stuck confiscated paper advertisements all over the bodies of two boys, aged 10 and 15 and paraded them after they were found dispensing the ads.
The goal was to publicly humiliate them.
But using public humiliation to attempt to control the use of the adlets in China has met […]